💔🎗Rotem Kalev Altman

👩‍🔬Postdoc @UChicago in the @AWeinstock lab.
PhD @HUJI in the @LabSelaDon and @EfratOrnan labs.
Developmental biologist, currently studying immunometabolism

[💔🎗Rotem Kalev Altman @KalevRotem]

🤩💪Very excited to share that the second paper of my PhD research is online at the #Matrix Biology Journal 🤩💪
We used #double_KO mice lacking both #MMP2 and #MMP9 to investigate these #gelatinases' role in #Skeleton development
AddThis | Home https://t.co/noSrKRpM35

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

Iranian hairstylist Ami Moghadam received death threats for posting videos of women receiving haircuts on Instagram.

So she decided to troll the Islamic Regime and their oppressive mandatory hijab laws in the most epic, hilarious way possible. 😂

[💔🎗Rotem Kalev Altman @KalevRotem]

@KarinaYaniv באמת קרינה? לאן?

[💔🎗Rotem Kalev Altman @KalevRotem]

@ShperlingAmir חייבת רק לשאול, בתור מי שחיה כבר 3 שנים בארה"ב, אמנם מרצון אבל זה זמני ואני עתידה לחזור לארץ בתום ההתמחות, חיית פעם בחו"ל? למשך תקופה ארוכה? עם ילדים ועבודה ובירוקרטיה?
לא מנסה להתריס, ומבינה במובן מסוים את הצד הזה, אבל חשוב להבין שבכל מקום יש גם רע לצד הטוב.לפעמים יותר מאשר בארץ

[Ncole ✡︎ @ncole_r]

🔴 This story says everything.

Eyal Waldman, one of Israel’s top high-tech innovators & founder of Mellanox, believed in peace through opportunity.

In 2017, he opened a development hub inside Gaza, giving hundreds of Palestinian engineers high-paying jobs, dignity, and a future.

He said proudly:
“There are talented and smart people in Gaza. Cooperation reduces fear. Working together brings our nations closer.”

👉 He chose hope.
👉 He chose coexistence.
👉 He chose to invest in the very people the world said Israel was “oppressing.”

And then came October 7.

Palestinian terrorists crossed the border and murdered his 24-year-old daughter, Danielle, less than a mile from the center he built to give Gazans opportunity.

Read that again: He - gave - them - jobs.

This is the truth people refuse to look at:

Israel reached out with opportunity. Hamas answered with slaughter.

If this doesn’t expose the lie behind the “resistance” narrative, nothing will.

[Mazelit Airaksinen 🎗🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @Mazelit_]

On October 7th, the Idan family of the Nahal Oz Kibbutz lost their daughter Maayan, 18. Then, Hamas kidnapped her father Tsachi to Gaza and killed him too.

🕯️Tsachi Idan, 49

This is the last image of Tsachi, seen in the foreground holding his son, wife and daughter.

Moments before, his 18-year-old daughter, Maayan was shot by terrorists and died in his arms.

Someone took his wife Gali’s phone and livestreamed the horrors from her Facebook page to all her friends, warning neighbors what would soon await them.

In the footage, the family was huddled on the kitchen floor.

They are covered in Maayan's blood. Meanwhile, Tschai's younger kids are heard asking "are they killing us? are they killing us" in Hebrew.

Tschai's hands were then cuffed behind his back, in one of the most well-documented abductions in his kibbutz.

The children were overheard begging the Palestinians not to take their dad, not to kill him.

"I love you, don't be a hero, be smart. Take care of yourself, and come back to me in one piece.” Gali screamed as the drag Tsachi away.

Tsachi was later murdered in captivity.

Pure evil is bred and cultivated in Gaza by design, and we must figure out what needs to be done so we can live in peace 🎗️

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

I will never forget what they did to you.

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

Every single day, we remember.

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

Journals can’t find peer reviewers. Preprints aren’t taken seriously. Garbage papers slip through peer review. Meantime, AI is slowly taking over.

Nature describes the current situation. I highly recommend reading the article.

📍 The summary (+ my comments):

1. We are facing a SIGNIFICANT overload on reviewers. Fatigue is epidemic. Few scientists have time for much peer review. As a result, manuscript turnaround times are chaos. They’re unpredictable and painfully slow.

2. Grant and facility proposals demand massive peer review too. They push the system even further.

3. Review quality is decreasing. Rigor is inconsistent. Technical aspects are poorly assessed.

4. Gatekeeping and bias are very real (we all know how manuscripts are rejected due to competition & jealousy). It causes a growing dissatisfaction among scientists.

5. Paid reviewing does NOT automatically improve the acceptance rate. Trials show mixed results. For example, acceptance rates barely increased from 48% to 53% for Critical Care Medicine. The quality of PR remained the same. But for Biology Open, the PR process has become much faster. In either case, paid reviews are very hard to scale business-wise.

6. Distributed Peer Review is becoming more popular. Some funding agencies now require applicants to review peers’ proposals. But to to eliminate bias in it? I don’t know.

❗ There’re no simple solutions.

As a careful observer, I think that the complex picture is evolving along the following trajectory:

AI-assisted peer view (AI pre-screening, AI PR-assistant, AI audition of peer reviews)
+
Community reviewing
+
Some form of compensation
+
Involvement of wider community in PR lists (not only most recognized scientists)

What’s your view on it?

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

My soul is broken.

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Unfortunately it’s clear that the Israeli people (although we are the majority since Oct 7th) can’t topple the government or change its ways. Seems like the attorney general, the last gate keeper, will be fired soon. As long as we’re stuck with this government, the war won’t stop. Only international intervention (=the U.S) might do it. Three years of massive demonstrations (in some of them >10% of the population were on the streets) didn’t change a thing. This is a shameless and corrupted government that will stop at nothing. Bibi (and Hamas) will continue the war for one reason - to stay in power. They don’t care if all the Israeli hostages and innocent people in Gaza die. What type of international intervention do we need? I’m not sure, but if you think boycotts that target the government’s opposition (academia, art, culture -> all are part of the left) are helpful, then I’m not following the logic. These are the same groups Bibi is trying to suppress. Instead, international intervention should strengthen the liberals and suggest alternatives (and force a deal, back it up).

[AdaWeinstock @AWeinstock]

We all know that weight loss in obesity is good- but why does it help? And why is weight regain afterward harmful? 🤔
Excited to announce our new paper is finally out in @JClinicalInvest! 🚀👇

https://t.co/DjhD8J669J

[Eldad Tzahor @Tzahore]

My lab at @WeizmannScience was completely demolished by the Iranian missile a few days ago. This is hard and sad as nothing was left to save. We study heart regeneration and regenerative medicine. As such, we will regenerate, regrow and rebuild. The one thing that wasn't gone is our motivation said one of my student. It is true. Here, I would like to thank many of my friends around the globe that offer their help, space and support. I really appreciate that.

[raz sauber - רז זאובר @raz_sauber_]

This is the most Israeli thing I’ve seen.

Taken at the Weizmann Institute of Science, following the Iranian attack.

[💔🎗Rotem Kalev Altman @KalevRotem]

Super interesting!

[John Lukens @LukensJohnR]

Ironman. Maternal iron deficiency causes male-to-female sex reversal in mouse embryos https://t.co/dgnjuHPfV3
@Nature

[💔🎗Rotem Kalev Altman @KalevRotem]

Today, I had my 1st experience of bringing my 8yo daughter with me to the @UChicago Diabetes Day, where I presented my research in a poster. It went smoothly, and she was wonderful as most days 😅
A big shout out to all the #WomeninSTEM, trying to navigate challenges!

[AdaWeinstock @AWeinstock]

Why is the NIH investing $$ to study "transgender" mice🐭? 🤔 Let me explain 👇 🧵

TL;DR This has everything to do with your health and nothing to do with making people #transgender. #ScienceSavesLives

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

Nova survivor Yuval Sharvit: "The girl who was injured in the car next to me was dragged out by the terrorists. She begged whoever was in the car with her to help her, but he was trapped. She started screaming that they were ripping her clothes off, they were three terrorists, they raped her. I've never heard screams like that in my life and the terrorists sounded like they were drinking a cocktail at beach. when they finished they fired an RPG at her car, burned her. After everything she went through, She was burned alive".

[💔🎗Rotem Kalev Altman @KalevRotem]

@Mucus_Man 🤞🤞🙌🙌🙏🙏

[💔🎗Rotem Kalev Altman @KalevRotem]

Amazing movie!!

[Schuh Lab @SchuhLab]

Each month an #egg is ovulated from the #ovary, starting the journey of reproduction. But how does ovulation occur?🥚

Our latest work in @NatureCellBio led by @LastChrisThomas and @Tabea_Marx, describes the control of #ovulation using live imaging.

https://t.co/EYjwLfdAdy (1/7)

[RED lab @smadar_de]

As our excellent students are graduating, the RED lab is recruiting MSc and PhD students for the next academic year!

If you are fascinated with the biological regulation of embryo development and how it evolved - we are the place for you! Beautiful people inside and out, supportive atmosphere, and exciting science. Scholarships are availble.

We are a part of the Marine Biology Department at the University of Haifa:
https://t.co/Qn5JkPnBJi

Learn more about us here:
https://t.co/cEAYXTrDMZ

If you want to join us, write to me: [email protected]